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Marisa Constantinides

I train TEFL teachers at CELT in Athens Greece and online - our main courses are Cambridge CELTA and Delta. I interact with educators from all over the world through social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and through blogging

This is an article I wrote with Shaun Wilden in July 2017 and am including a short introduction just to put new friends in the picture of how these particular ideas came to be and how we navigate our careers and learning these days. I met Shaun in […]

An exciting way of doing your Cambridge DELTA online via CELT Athens Following a Delta course online does not mean only Moodle or some similar environment where you log in, read, write and never interact live. Our online Delta courses have become so popular just because they take […]

Market produced and teacher-prepared games have an important role to plan in the language classroom. Enjoyable and engaging, they draw attention away from too much preoccupation with accuracy and create the need to talk, spurred by the desire to play and, of course, win! However true this may […]

Celebrating our anniversary 24 years on 24 years ago, I found myself having to reboot my ideas about running a teacher development centre and realised that this time I would have to go it on my own. Today, I find myself feeling grateful to all those trainees who […]

My new infographic Some time ago, I started trying to learn to make infographics and had an idea for a poster showing a possible lesson following a process orientation to writing. The infographic took quite a bit of work to do. Process was less easy to depict than […]

I was shocked to hear that one of my past trainees in Athens Greece, is actually keeping her CELTA secret from her employer. She has begged her tutors all her colleagues never to mention her slip up to her employer (though she passed with a great grade!!) In […]

Free CELT Athens Teacher Development Webinars CELT Athens is offering a series of monthly teacher development webinars free for all practising and aspiring English language teachers. These interactive webinars will focus on areas relevant to working professionals who need practical advice on their day-to-day teaching. Webinar presenters are […]

It’s here! On the launch pad – our first CELTA online course – and we are already accepting applications from our first cohort of trainees who will begin their course on April 24. Is the CELTA really fully done online? The CELTA Online is not really and truly a fully […]